On this day in 1833, Eliza Baldwin died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templemartin, Co. Cork, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/baldwin1833
Congratulations to CBI Sr. Research Fellow William Aspray who just published Understanding Information History: The Case of America in 1920 (Springer).
By the way @histodons , its probably old news for people who are already engaging with this, but I just learned about two fascinating pioneers of humanities computing, Andrew and Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College, London, who apparently worked on #NLP (specifically machine translation, but together with students/collabs. on other things) starting in the early 50s (perhaps earlier).
On this day in 1801, Mary Ledwith Higgins died aged 72. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballymore, Co. Westmeath, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/higgins1801
Deadline approaching: December 13 is the last day to make hotel reservations through the housing service for #AHA24 in San Francisco. To learn more about attending, follow the link. @histodonshttps://www.historians.org/annual-meeting